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From the Public Domain Review. See also my post Funny Font Friday 1, some silly movies and their fonts.

The Funny Alphabet (ca.1850)

Funny alphabet; ca.1850; McLoughlin Bro’s publishers, New York.

A delightful little alphabet book in which the letters are made up from acrobatically contorted bodies, and the accompanying text from often equally contorted rhymes.

The letters A and B

The letters C, D, E, and F

The letters G, H, I, and J

The letters K, L, M, and N

The letters O, P, Q, and R

The letters S, T, U, and V

The letters W and X

The letters Y and Z

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